Hypnotherapy, NLP and Psychotherapy can be extremely effective at treating phobias and anxieties, because they deal directly with the unconscious mind. Phobias with a single specific trigger, for example fear of spiders, can often be dealt with very quickly in 1 to 4 sessions. More complex phobias, anxieties and panic disorders, like public speaking, with more triggers and complexity, will require more time, so around 4 to 8 sessions or more may be required.

The reason for having a phobia can normally be linked to an experience in from past where strong emotional response has been linked, at an unconscious level, with a specific trigger or stimuli. This is usually from the result of an emotionally stimulating event. Being re-exposed to the trigger, for example, seeing a rat, generates the associated response, generally resulting in extreme feelings of anxiety, panic and fear

One of the most complete and effective way to eliminate or reduce the phobia is to breakdown the unconscious association between the stimulus and the response.

Trying to deal with a phobia at a conscious level is often futile. This is because phobias happen automatically below the level of conscious awareness. In fact many people are already aware of how irrational their phobic reaction is. However no matter how much they try to consciously control and rationalise the fear, they still experience the phobia.

It is essential to be sure about what you are actually suffering from, as many people assume they have a phobia, when they actually have an anxiety or a panic disorder, which is more complex and needs to be treated differently to a phobia. However it is common for people to have both a phobia and anxiety. During our Initial Consultation / Assessment Session I will assess your issues and determine the most appropriate course of treatment.

Common fears, anxieties and phobias:
fear of public speaking, performance anxiety, fear of rejection, fear of success, fear of driving, fear of bridges, fear of crowds, bird phobia, spider phobia, fear of flying, fear of vomit, fear of panicking, fear of fear. For a more extensive list please see below.

Phobia list

Index

Description

A

Fear of Animals.

Zoophobia

Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.

Politicophobia

Fear of accidents.

Dystychiphobia

Fear of air drafts or wind.

Anemophobia

Fear of alcohol.

Methyphobia

Fear of alcohol.

Potophobia

Fear of amnesia.

Amnesiphobia

Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.

Batrachophobia

Fear of an erect penis.

Medorthophobia

Fear of anger or of becoming angry.

Angrophobia

Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.

Cholerophobia

Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.

Anginophobia

Fear of ants.

Myrmecophobia

Fear of anything new, novelty.

Kainophobia

Fear of anything new.

Neophobia

Fear of asymmetrical things.

Asymmetriphobia

Fear of ataxia (muscular incoordination)

Ataxiophobia

Fear of atomic explosions.

Atomosophobia

Fear of automobiles.

Motorphobia

Fear or aversion to mushrooms.

Mycophobia

B

Fear of Bolsheviks.

Bolshephobia

Fear of bacteria.

Bacteriophobia

Fear of bad men, burglars.

Scelerophibia

Fear of bald people.

Peladophobia

Fear of beards.

Pogonophobia

Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people.

Teratophobia

Fear of beautiful women.

Caligynephobia

Fear of beautiful women.

Venustraphobia

Fear of becoming bald.

Phalacrophobia

Fear of becoming ill.

Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia

Fear of bees.

Apiphobia

Fear of bees.

Melissophobia

Fear of being alone or of oneself.

Autophobia

Fear of being bound or tied up.

Merinthophobia

Fear of being buried alive

Taphephobia Taphophobia

Fear of being contagious.

Tapinophobia

Fear of being contaminated with dirt of germs.

Misophobia

Fear of being dirty.

Automysophobia

Fear of being enclosed.

Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia

Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.

Social Phobia

Fear of being forgotten or ignored or forgetting.

Athazagoraphobia

Fear of being infested with worms.

Helminthophobia

Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.

Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia

Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.

Eremophobia

Fear of being ridiculed.

Catagelophobia

Fear of being robbed.

Harpaxophobia

Fear of being seen or stared at.

Scopophobia or Scoptophobia

Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.(wand)

Rhabdophobia

Fear of being stared at.

Ophthalmophobia

Fear of being tickled by feathers.

Pteronophobia

Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia)

Aphenphosmphobia

Fear of being touched.

Chiraptophobia

Fear of being touched.

Haphephobia or Haptephobia

Fear of bicycles.

Cyclophobia

Fear of birds.

Ornithophobia

Fear of blindness in visual field.

Scotomaphobia

Fear of blood.

Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia

Fear of blushing.

Ereuthrophobia

Fear of body smells.

Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia

Fear of bogies or the bogeyman.

Bogyphobia

Fear of books.

Bibliophobia

Fear of brain disease.

Meningitophobia

Fear of bulls.

Taurophobia

C

Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture.

Sinophobia

Fear of cancer.

Cancerophobia, Carcinophobia

Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia)

Elurophobia

Fear of cats.

Felinophobia, Ailurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia

Fear of cemeteries.

Coimetrophobia

Fear of certain fabrics.

Textophobia

Fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright.

Topophobia

Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.

Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia

Fear of changes.

Metathesiophobia

Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.

Chemophobia

Fear of chickens.

Alektorophobia

Fear of childbirth.

Lockiophobia, Maieusiophobia, Parturiphobia

Fear of children.

Pedophobia

Fear of chins.

Geniophobia

Fear of choking of being smothered.

Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia

Fear of church.

Ecclesiophobia

Fear of clocks.

Chronomentrophobia

Fear of clothing.

Vestiphobia

Fear of clouds.

Nephophobia

Fear of clowns.

Coulrophobia

Fear of coitus.

Coitophobia

Fear of cold, cold things.

Frigophobia

Fear of cold.

Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia

Fear of cold.

Psychrophobia

Fear of colours.

Chromophobia

Fear of comets.

Cometophobia

Fear of computers or working on a computer.

Cyberphobia

Fear of computers.

Logizomechanophobia

Fear of confined spaces.

Claustrophobia

Fear of constipation.

Coprastasophobia

Fear of contracting poliomyelitis.

Poliosophobia

Fear of cooking.

Mageirocophobia

Fear of cosmic phenomenon.

Kosmikophobia

Fear of crosses or the crucifix.

Staurophobia

Fear of crossing bridges.

Gephyrophobia, Gephydrophobia, or Gephysrophobia

Fear of crossing streets.

Dromophobia

Fear of crowds or mobs.

Ochlophobia

Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia)

Demophobia

Fear of crowds.

Enochlophobia

Fear of crystals or glass.

Crystallophobia

D

Fear of dancing.

Chorophobia

Fear of dark wooded areas, of forests at night

Nyctohylophobia

Fear of darkness. (Achluophobia)

Scotophobia

Fear of darkness.

Achluophobia

Fear of darkness.

Lygophobia

Fear of darkness.

Myctophobia

Fear of dawn or daylight.

Eosophobia

Fear of daylight or sunshine.

Phengophobia

Fear of death or dead things.

Necrophobia

Fear of death or dying.

Thanatophobia or Thantophobia

Fear of decaying matter.

Seplophobia

Fear of defecation.

Rhypophobia

Fear of definite disease.

Monopathophobia

Fear of definite plans.

Teleophobia

Fear of deformity.

Dysmorphophobia

Fear of demons.

Demonophobia or Daemonophobia

Fear of dentists.

Dentophobia

Fear of dependence on others.

Soteriophobia

Fear of depth.

Bathophobia

Fear of diabetes.

Diabetophobia

Fear of dining or dinner conversations.

Deipnophobia

Fear of dirt or contamination.

Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia

Fear of dirt.

Rupophobia

Fear of disease.

Pathophobia

Fear of disorder or untidiness.

Ataxophobia

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Row 1 Cell 2

Fear of dizziness or whirlpools.

Dinophobia

Fear of dogs or rabies.

Cynophobia

Fear of dolls.

Pediophobia

Fear of double vision.

Diplophobia

Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.

Aerophobia

Fear of dreams.

Oneirophobia

Fear of drinking.

Dipsophobia

Fear of drugs.

Pharmacophobia

Fear of dryness.

Xerophobia

Fear of dust. (Amathophobia)

Koniophobia

Fear of dust.

Amathophobia

E

Fear of electricity.

Electrophobia

Fear of everything.

Panophobia or Pantophobia

Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise.

Doxophobia

Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.

Cryophobia

Fear of eyes.

Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia

Fear of England, English culture, etc.

Anglophobia

F

Fear of Fever.

Pyrexiophobia

Fear of France, French culture.

Francophobia

Francophobia

Paraskavedekatriaphobia

Fear of failure or defeat.

Kakorrhaphiophobia

Fear of failure.

Atychiphobia

Fear of fainting or weakness.

Asthenophobia

Fear of falling in love or being in love.

Philophobia

Fear of fatigue.

Kopophobia

Fear of fecal matter.

Scatophobia

Fear of feces.

Coprophobia

Fear of feeling pleasure.

Hedonophobia

Fear of female genitalia.

Eurotophobia

Fear of fever.

Febriphobia, Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia

Fear of fire.

Arsonphobia

Fear of fire.

Pyrophobia

Fear of firearms.

Hoplophobia

Fear of fish.

Ichthyophobia

Fear of floods.

Antlophobia

Fear of flowers.

Anthrophobia or Anthophobia

Fear of flutes.

Aulophobia

Fear of flying.

Aviophobia or Aviatophobia

Fear of flying.

Fear of fog. (Homichlophobia)

Nebulaphobia

Fear of fog.

Homichlophobia

Fear of food or eating. (Cibophobia)

Sitophobia or Sitiophobia

Fear of food.

Cibophobia or Sitophobia or Sitiophobia

Fear of foreign languages.

Xenoglossophobia

Fear of forests.

Hylophobia

Fear of freedom.

Eleutherophobia

Fear of frogs.

Ranidaphobia

Fear of fur or skins of animals.

Doraphobia

G

Fear of German or German things.

Teutophobia

Fear of Germany, German culture, etc.

Germanophobia

Fear of God or gods.

Zeusophobia

Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.

Hellenologophobia

Fear of gaiety.

Cherophobia

Fear of gaining weight. (Obesophobia)

Pocrescophobia

Fear of gaining weight.(Pocrescophobia)

Obesophobia

Fear of garlic.

Alliumphobia

Fear of genitals, particularly female.

Kolpophobia

Fear of germs or contamination or dirt.

Mysophobia

Fear of germs.

Spermatophobia or Spermophobia

Fear of germs.

Verminophobia

Fear of getting wrinkles.

Rhytiphobia

Fear of ghosts.

Phasmophobia

Fear of glaring lights.

Photoaugliaphobia

Fear of glass.

Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia

Fear of glass.

Nelophobia

Fear of gods or religion.

Theophobia

Fear of going to bed.

Clinophobia

Fear of going to school.

Didaskaleinophobia

Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.

Iatrophobia

Fear of gold.

Aurophobia

Fear of gravity.

Barophobia

Fear of growing old.

Gerascophobia

H

Fear of Halloween.

Samhainophobia

Fear of hair. (Chaetophobia)

Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia or Hypertrichophobia

Fear of hair.

Chaetophobia

Fear of hands.

Chirophobia

Fear or hatred of music.

Melophobia

Fear or hatred of poetry.

Metrophobia

Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism.

Enosiophobia or Enissophobia

Fear of hearing a certain word or of names.

Onomatophobia

Fear of hearing good news.

Euphobia

Fear of heat.

Thermophobia

Fear of heaven.

Ouranophobia

Fear of heaven.

Uranophobia

Hypsiphobia

Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.

Batophobia

Fear of heights.

Acrophobia

Fear of heights.

Altophobia

Fear of hell.

Hadephobia

Fear of hell.

Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia

Fear of heredity.

Patroiophobia

Fear of home surroundings, house.

Oikophobia

Fear of home surroundings.

Eicophobia or Oikophobia

Fear of home.

Ecophobia

Fear of horses.

Equinophobia

Fear of horses.

Hippophobia

Fear of hospitals.

Nosocomephobia

Fear of houses or being in a house.

Domatophobia or Oikophobia

I

Fear of ice or frost.

Pagophobia

Fear of ideas.

Ideophobia

Fear of immobility of a joint.

Ankylophobia

Fear of imperfection.

Atelophobia

Fear of infinity.

Apeirophobia

Fear of injections.

Trypanophobia

Fear of injury.

Traumatophobia

Fear of insanity.

Agateophobia

Fear of insanity.

Dementophobia

Fear of insanity.

Maniaphobia

Fear of insects.

Entomophobia

Fear of insects.

Entomophobia

Fear of insects.

Insectophobia

Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.

Acarophobia

J

Fear of Japanese.

Japanophobia

Fear of Jews.

Judeophobia

Fear of jealousy.

Zelophobia

Fear of jumping from high and low places.

Catapedaphobia

Fear of justice.

Dikephobia

K

Fear of kidney disease.

Albuminurophobia

Fear of kissing.

Philemaphobia or Philematophobia

Fear of knees.

Genuphobia

Fear of knowledge.

Epistemophobia

Fear of knowledge.

Gnosiophobia

L

Fear of lakes.

Limnophobia

Fear of large things.

Megalophobia

Fear of laughter.

Geliophobia

Fear of laughter.

Geliophobia

Fear of lawsuits.

Liticaphobia

Fear of learning.

Sophophobia

Fear of leprosy.

Leprophobia or Lepraphobia

Fear of lice. (Pediculophobia)

Fear of lice.

Pediculophobia

Fear of light flashes.

Selaphobia

Fear of light.

Photophobia

Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture.

Hygrophobia

Fear of lockjaw, tetanus.

Tetanophobia

Fear of long waits.

Macrophobia

Fear of long words.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Fear of long words.

Sesquipedalophobia

Fear of looking up.

Anablephobia

Fear of losing an erection.

Medomalacuphobia

Fear of loud noises.

Ligyrophobia

Fear of love play. (Malaxophobia)

Sarmassophobia

Fear of love play. (Sarmassophobia)

Malaxophobia

Fear of lues, syphillis.

Luiphobia

M

Fear of machines.

Mechanophobia

Fear of making decisions.

Decidophobia

Fear of many things.

Polyphobia

Fear of marriage.

Gamophobia

Fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy.

Hylephobia

Fear of meat.

Carnophobia

Fear of memories.

Mnemophobia

Fear of men.

Androphobia

Fear of men.

Arrhenphobia

Fear of men.

Hominophobia

Fear of menstruation.

Menophobia

Fear of mercurial medicines.

Hydrargyophobia

Fear of metal.

Metallophobia

Fear of meteors.

Meteorophobia

Fear of mice.

Musophobia or Murophobia

Fear of mice.

Suriphobia

Fear of microbes. (Bacillophobia)

Microbiophobia

Fear of microbes.

Bacillophobia

Fear of mind.

Psychophobia

Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.

Eisoptrophobia

Fear of mirrors.

Catoptrophobia

Fear of missiles or bullets.

Ballistophobia

Fear of money.

Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia

Fear of mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia)

Pentheraphobia

Fear of moths.

Mottephobia

Fear of movement or motion.

Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia

Fear of moving or making changes.

Tropophobia

Fear of myths or stories or false statements.

Mythophobia

N

Fear of names.

Nomatophobia

Fear of narrow things or places.

Stenophobia

Fear of needles or pointed objects.

Aichmophobia

Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility.

Paralipophobia

Fear of new drugs.

Neopharmaphobia

Fear of new things or ideas.

Cenophobia or Centophobia

Fear of newness, novelty.

Cainophobia or Cainotophobia

Fear of noise.

Acousticophobia

Fear of noises or voices or one’s own voice; of telephones.

Phonophobia

Fear of nosebleeds.

Epistaxiophobia

Fear of novelty.

Kainolophobia

Fear of nuclear weapons.

Nucleomituphobia

Fear of nudity.

Gymnophobia

Fear of nudity.

Nudophobia

Fear of numbers.

Arithmophobia

Fear of numbers.

Numerophobia

Fear of Northern lights.

Auroraphobia

O

Fear of objects at the right side of the body.

Dextrophobia

Fear of old people or of growing old.

Gerontophobia

Fear of one that has a vile odor.

Autodysomophobia

Fear of open high places.

Aeroacrophobia

Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place.

Agoraphobia

Fear of opening one’s eyes.

Optophobia

Fear of opinions.

Allodoxaphobia

Fear of otters.

Lutraphobia

Fear of outer space.

Spacephobia

Fear of overworking or of pain.

Ponophobia

P

Fear of pain. (Algophobia)

Odynophobia or Odynephobia

Fear of pain.

Agliophobia

Fear of pain.

Agliophobia

Fear of painful bowels movements.

Defecaloesiophobia

Fear of paper.

Papyrophobia

Fear of parasites.

Parasitophobia

Fear of parents-in-law.

Soceraphobia

Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

Arachibutyrophobia

Fear of pellagra.

Pellagrophobia

Fear of penis, esp erect.

Phallophobia

Fear of people or society.

Anthropophobia

Fear of persons with amputations.

Apotemnophobia

Fear of philosophy.

Philosophobia

Fear of phobias.

Phobophobia

Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia)

Belonephobia

Fear of pins.

Enetophobia

Fear of plants.

Botanophobia

Fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned.

Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia

Fear of poison.

Iophobia

Fear of poverty.

Peniaphobia

Fear of precipices.

Cremnophobia

Fear of pregnancy or childbirth.

Tocophobia

Fear of priests or sacred things.

Hierophobia

Fear of progress.

Prosophobia

Fear of property.

Orthophobia

Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease.

Cypridophobia, Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia, or Cyprinophobia

Fear of punishment.

Mastigophobia

Fear of punishment.

Poinephobia

Fear of puppets.

Pupaphobia

R

Fear of Russians.

Russophobia

Fear of rabies or of becoming mad.

Lyssophobia

Fear of rabies.

Hydrophobophobia

Fear of rabies.

Hydrophobophobia

Fear of radiation, x-rays.

Radiophobia

Fear of rain or of being rained on.

Ombrophobia

Fear of rain or of being rained on.

Pluviophobia

Fear of rape.

Virginitiphobia

Fear of razors.

Xyrophobia

Fear of rectum or rectal diseases.

Rectophobia

Fear of rectum.

Proctophobia

Fear of relatives.

Syngenesophobia

Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things.

Herpetophobia

Fear of responsibility.

Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia

Fear of returning home.

Nostophobia

Fear of ridicule.

Katagelophobia

Fear of riding in a car.

Amaxophobia

Fear of rivers or running water.

Potamophobia

Fear of road travel.

Hodophobia

Fear of rooms.

Koinoniphobia

Fear of ruin or ruins.

Atephobia

S

Fear of Satan.

Satanophobia

Fear of saints or holy things.

Hagiophobia

Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual.